
Such a CA is said to be expressed in the block-circuit form which is often referred as the (Margolus-)Partitioned CA in Computer Science vocabulary [1]}, or Lattice-gas automata in Physics [2]}. Fig-REF  gives an example of this dynamics for \(N=2\)  (where the three colors represent the three possible states), and Fig-REF  introduces the conventions used.
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